Key critical books and bibliographies for the study of Norman Mailer are arranged chronologically. If you are looking to purchase books by or about Norman Mailer, click the links below, or search.
- Barry Leeds, The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer
(1969).
- Donald Kaufmann, Norman Mailer: The Countdown (The First Twenty Years)
(1969).
- Robert Lucid, Ed., Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work
(1971). Essays.
- Leo Braudy, Ed., Twentieth Century Views of Norman Mailer (1972). Essays.
- Richard Poirier, Norman Mailer (1972).
- Robert Solotaroff, Down Mailer’s Way (1974).
- Laura Adams, Ed., Will the Real Norman Mailer Stand Up (1974). Essays.
- Laura Adams, Norman Mailer: A Comprehensive Bibliography (1974).
- Jean Radford, Norman Mailer: A Critical Study (1975).
- Philip Bufithis, Norman Mailer (1978).
- Andrew Gordon, An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer (1980).
- Robert J. Begiebing, Acts of Regeneration: Allegory and Archetype in the Works of Norman Mailer (1981).
- Hilary Mills, Mailer: A Biography (1982).
- Peter Manso, Mailer: His Life and Times
(1985).
- J. Michael Lennon, Ed., Critical Essays on Norman Mailer (Critical Essays on American Literature)
(1986).
- Joseph Wenke, Mailer’s America (1987).
- J. Michael Lennon, Ed., Conversations with Norman Mailer
(1988).
- Robert J. Begiebing, Toward a New Synthesis: John Fowles, John Gardner, and Norman Mailer (1989).
- Nigel Leigh, Radical Fictions and the Novels of Norman Mailer (1990).
- Carl Rollyson, The Lives of Norman Mailer: A Biography
(1991).
- Robert Merrill, Norman Mailer (1992).
- Michael K. Glenday, Norman Mailer (1995).
- Mary V. Dearborn, Mailer (1999). Biography.
- Michael Lennon and Donna Pedro Lennon, Norman Mailer Works and Days (2000). Biography-Bibliography.
- Morris Dickstein, Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970 (2002).
- Barry Leeds, The Enduring Vision of Norman Mailer
(2002).
- Harold Bloom, Norman Mailer (Bloom’s Modern Critical Views)
(2003).
